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8 JANUARY - FEBRUARY, 1968
The Panther
NEW LOOK FOR '68
DOING DRESS
A dress for doers—short-cut
sleeves; low, easy belt; wide-striding
culottes—all crisply plaided
in green and white.
By Lotus; bonded Celanese
by Helen Boykin
The spring look for ’68 is going to be one of the biggest
changes in dressing than in any other season this year. There
will be a consolidated trend emerging in spring fashions.
Changes in the waist are coming back into fashion focus.
Although its comeback is not althogether new, it certainly will be
up dated to our times. The consolidated trend involves the putting
together of parts to make the whole skirt, the shirt, the jacket or
some interpretation of the three.
Shirts are in once again. The new trend is wearing shirts
everywhere you go. The new look has
. become shirt dresses, shirt coats, shirt
blouses, and even shirt pajamas.
Shirts will become dresses, full and
tightly waisted. They will become the
look of coats with tab fronts or plackets,
with side closings. Shirts are going to
give light to suits or tuck under jumpers.
They will indeed be in.
The newest coat look is the shirt
with belts, the empire look, hip-hugging,
or squarely at the waist. Many of the
suits will be short jackets with full skirts.
Of course there are still discussions
concerning the hemlines. In evening wear,
the hemlines, after dark, will still range from short to long. Never
theless, there are still the chances of hemlines dropping for the
new season.
The Bonnie and Clyde look will be a special look this spring.
Many of the suits consist of long jackets, short skirts, and V’d
blouses which were very popular in the Thirties.
Besides the new look in clothes, there will be a new look in
make up and hair grooming.
For comfort hair styling, the electric rollers are in. They are
not bad if you do not get them tangled in your hair, and break it
off. They are convenient in that they obviate the old sleeping-on-
rollers routine. “Hair falling out” could be lack of vitamins;
nerves; too much teasing and rolling up; not enough brushing, and
scalp stimulation. But at a certain time of the year, hair does
fall out more than usual.
In choosing make up, you should experiment—then you will
know when you’ve hit the right colors. You can make thinner
your eyebrows by plucking only from underneath, in the direction
the hair grows. For eye shadow—the neutrals, like beiges, browns
and off-whites, look well on almost everyone.
THE SHIRT SEASON
... A season which, these days,
adds up to four a year.
Goes for shirtdressing, too:
it never looked better.
Shirtdress of the
never-looked-better variety:
a yellow/orange woven-stripe
cord (Boussac) that’s all
buttoned-down good looks.
Peace Corps
Deferments
WASHINGTON — The Peace
Corps announced today it will
intervene on behalf of Volun
teers seeking draft deferments
for two years of overseas ser
vice.
Agency Dir. Jack Vaughn,
concerned by mounting induc
tion calls to Volunteers serving
overseas, said he will take an
“active role" in seeking future
deferment cases before the Pres
idential Appeal Board ■— the
court of last resort for draft re
classifications.
In the past agency performed
a largely informational function
— advising Volunteers and
trainees of Selective Service
laws and procedures and con
firming to local boards the fact
of the Volunteer’s service.
In future appeals, Vaughn
will write letters to the board
describing the circumstances in
each case and urging board
members to grant a deferment
until completion of the Volun
teer’s overseas tour.
Vaughn said Peace Corps
Volunteers have lost about 60
deferment appeals before the
three-man board in the last six
and one-half years. While ad
verse rulings by the national
board have involved less than
one-half of one percent of the
estimated 15,000 draft-eligible
men to have served in the Peace
Corps, “virtually all of these
have occurred in the past year,”
he said.
Of the approximately 25
Volunteers who have already re
turned to the United States for
draft induction, two were dis
qualified for physical reasons
and returned to their overseas
assignments.
The vast majority of Peace
Corps Volunteers are granted
deferments for two years of
overseas duty because their ser
vice is deemed by their local
boards to be “in the national in
terest,” as recommended by Lt.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the
draft director.
However, some local Selec
tive boards refuse deferments
even though Peace Corps ser
vice does not relieve Volunteers
of their draft obligations. If the
local board is upheld by the
State Appeal Board, the case
may reach the Presidential Ap
peal Board which makes the
final decision.
The appeal process often
takes months to be resolved and
the Peace Corps frequently sends
Volunteers to their overseas sites
while their appeals for defer
ment are pending.
Misunderstanding and Christian Fear
Rambling in two speeches, one in Chapel the other in Kresgc
Hall lounge, from a comparison of the Blacks in America to the
American Indians who “burned and plundered” and brought the
“inevitable white retaliation" to a list of 17 kinds of Black Power
including Black Lung and Black Crowd Powers, Rev. Albert S.
Foley addressed Clark's student body on the topic of “A Christian
Looks at Black Power.”
Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Soci
ology and Psychology, Spring Hill College, Rev. Foley went to
great lengths to represent Black Power as
a dim abstraction out of which nothing
good and inevitable defeat would or could
come.
His attack on Black Power covered
many facets, all insinuating that it ends
in riots or other forms of violence or law
lessness. He then went on to call the
rioting “demonstrations of powerlessness”
that would only be put down by the ar
mored cars and tanks of the white society
the riots threaten. He attributed these
acts of “mass insanity” to the Black Ver
bal Power of frusrated “demagogues”
like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap
Brown, who are racists in reverse.
Rev. Foley went on to outline the role of the Black man in
the different aspects of life; his Black Political, Economical, and
Religious Powers. However, none of his arguments stood up
under questioning because of the poor examples he used to sub
stantiate them; he used Thurgood Marshal, saying he is the most
important man in the U.S. because he could cast the deciding
vote in any supreme court decision, he failed to say that any of
the other justices could do this. He used Senator Edward Brooke
as an inflential political figure but refused to admit that Senator
Brooks has declared himself an individual and announced his de
fection from the race. At the conference of Black Elected Officials,
in Chicago, Sen. Brooke was noticeably absent.
In economical respects Father Foley cited examples were men
financially broke in 1948 and today have an income of $300,000
a year. These same men were able, though, to “scrape together
and borrow” $80,000 to finance their business investment. How
these methods could be applicable to Black men was left as a mys
tery.
It would seem that Rev. Foley could have cited valid ex
amples of Black Religious Power but he didn’t. Although he spoke
of Christian ideals of brotherhood, he could not get around the
fact that 11:00 a.m. Sunday morning is the most segregated hour
of the week. He did go into the fact that more and more people
are turning away from Christianity; nearly 300,000 since the
Rights Movement gathered steam. This seem to disturb him less
than the fact that many of them turned towards Islam.
He categorized Black Nationalist, Black Separatist, and
Black Muslim Power together, based on the same foundations of
a racist religion Islam. — He then referred to the Moslem expoita-
tion of Africa and their efforts to convert the conquered peoples.
He did not mention the white missionaries in Africa or the Wes
tern U.S. who gave the natives a Bible and took their land.
He quoted a Christian verse; “He that taketh up the sword
shall perish by the sword”, but failed to note how this country
was founded or that it is time to end the menal bondage its socie
ty holds the Black man in.
One very profound statement came from both of his talks; he
said that America had better do something meaningful in the na
tions ghetto before the ghetto rises up and destroys us all. Wheth
er he admits it or not, Rev. Foley realizes the potential of the
Black community united under a single common bond or rallying
call and it is just a matter of time before the idea of Black Power
will be come just this. Not in the violent and lawless terms but as
a manifold project, with the rearrangement of the present system
as its ultimate goal.
Hippies Hopeful
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cial characteristics. Thus, the
unkept and generally slovenly
appearances of the Hippie in
actuality reflect the accepted
white concept of those living
outside of their system — the
Negro.
Then there are the Black hip
pies. They are the most dis
illusioned of all. Through ideas
of association with fellow “Free
men” they plan to lose their
identity as Blacks. Hypnotized
by the promise of, at long last,
integration and mingling with
the white race, the Black hippie
is groping for the rewards said
to be issued by the act of inter-
gration. He is not aware that he
But Not Hip ....
is“intergrating” with the fringes
of the whites, they “freaky ones”
that have dropped out of their
places in society but are able to
return after a shave and shower.
The Black hippie cannot. He is
still outside looking in. And
since the Negro is identified with
filth and dirt already, Black hip
pies only exemplify what white
America thinks all Negroes to
be.
The hippies are an eruption
of the white American con
science laced with the drugs,
homosexuality, and decadent
morals of white America. Whites
dropping out of their society
into one associated with Black
ness. Therefore Black hippies
are in Suburbia swapping wives
and playing golf, dropping out
of their Black society into a
white one and not in the col
onies of “Freemen” across the
nation. All of the Beatniks, Hip
pies and what ever comes next
will not change present condi
tions until the minds of men are
changed against discrimination
by race or culture.
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